Set Default Start Document

Question

This seems pretty simple, but for the life of me I can't figure it out.

Using ASP.NET Classic (ie non-MVC), say I have a website www.foo.com that has an /api folder, and in that folder is the file api.aspx (i.e. you hit www.foo.com/api/api.aspx)

How can I set things up (either via Web.config rewrite or via MapPageRoute() in Global.asax.cs) so that www.foo.com/api

1. hits /api/api.aspx not /api/Default.aspx
2. doesn't show api.aspx in the browser's URL box (I just want to see either www.foo.com/api or www.foo.com/api/)

I would have thought that this would work:

routes.MapPageRoute("ApiRoute","api","~/Api/Api.aspx");

but it doesn't... I still hit /api/Default.aspx

EDIT: I also want to support /abc/abc.aspx and /thing/thing.aspx, mostly so when I have these pages open in the IDE they're not all named "Default.aspx" and I can't quickly see which page is which.

Answer 1

I've created a small demo project. Each folder I want to set a specific default document I add a web.config file.

project structure

Each web.config file defines a default file for it's folder.

web.config in folderA

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<configuration>
  <system.webServer>
    <defaultDocument enabled="true">
      <files>
        <clear/>
        <add value="a.aspx"/>
      </files>
    </defaultDocument>
    <modules runAllManagedModulesForAllRequests="true"/>
  </system.webServer>
</configuration>

Accordingly for folderB

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<configuration>
  <system.webServer>
    <defaultDocument enabled="true">
      <files>
        <clear/>
        <add value="b.aspx"/>
      </files>
    </defaultDocument>
    <modules runAllManagedModulesForAllRequests="true"/>
  </system.webServer>
</configuration>

ATTENTION

When I did some tests in my development webServer it did not work. But when I published my project to my local IIS instance it did work out all right.

local IIS deployment